The buzz of activity that’s usually dispersed around the city during New York fashion week was almost entirely zoned in on Milk Studios at 7 p.m. last night, where the next generation of designers congregated to unveil their latest endeavors. Among the furor were three young Brits—Duro Olowu, Graeme Armour, and Mark Fast—who took a moment to reveal to Vogue which of their Spring 2012 creations they’d like to see on American women.

DURO OLOWU“It’s hard to get New Yorkers out of black,” says Duro Olowu. “But I love that people here are ready to see things in a new way, if you show them in the right way.” And, to ease them gently into his rainbow-hued, Fifties-inspired silhouettes, he selects a black, full-skirted frock with panels of kaleidoscopic embroidery. “It looks very pulled together, which is perfect for New York women.”

FASTER BY MARK FASTThe Canadian-born designer Mark Fast admires the no-nonsense approach Americans have toward spending: “There was a real energy to buy, buy, buy last Thursday during Fashion’s Night Out,” he recalls after after a head spinning night in the Meat Packing District. “New York women go for sharper looks than Londoners, so I’d dress them in one of these layered tops and skirts.” He’s gesturing toward one of his thigh-skimming, duck-egg blue silhouettes, with weblike insertions woven so tight there’s barely room to breathe. “This is a great dress for wandering around downtown.”GRAEME ARMOURScottish-born Graeme Armour has been musing on the merging of uptown and downtown sensibilities. “It used to be chic versus sporty here, but now New Yorkers are meeting somewhere in the middle, which embodies my aesthetic.” It’s a glossy, vermillion, quilted leather biker jacket, with a cross-body zipper that Armour predicts will become a stateside favorite, because, as he perceives it, “it’s a wardrobe basic, but with an avant-garde twist.”